'What's In a Name?' - 10/18/18

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Glenn backgray Stu Bergrier for Glenn today who is

doing a triathlon right on off the coast of South Africa.

Yeah, it's kind of cool.

I mean you've seen the physical transformation.

He's been training for this for I don't know how long.

He's an incredible looks fantastic.

Incredible.

He's a really healthy guy.

Oh, yeah.

And makes you feel bad about yourself.

Like, you know, sometimes I'll have a meal that's a little bit off, or maybe I won't exercise for a day.

Right.

And you see that Glenn does not do those things anymore.

You can tell.

You can tell.

So I feel like his time is going to be pretty solid.

All right.

888727, B-E-C-K,

with your comments and questions, and maybe you have some questions like we do on this Saudi Arabian killing.

I, you know, I don't know why we haven't nuked Riyadh yet.

Right.

I don't know why.

I mean, a journalist was killed.

Yeah.

That much we kind of know.

So usually when that happens, we've destroyed the country by now.

It's usually what you do.

Right?

You just willy-nilly start launching missiles at it.

I love the way the media reacts to this stuff.

The criticism, the main criticism of Donald Trump since he's been in the public eye in politics is that he reacts too quickly.

He just jumps into everything, and he's constantly,

he's a loose cannon.

He might nuke everybody.

Now it's like, why isn't he nuking everybody?

Right.

He's actually trying to gather facts.

Yeah.

Why would you do that?

I mean, look, it to me sure looks like something really bad.

Really bad.

But again, all of this comes from Turkish sources, Turkish sources with an incentive to make Saudi Arabia look as bad as possible.

So until we actually have the evidence, or at least our intelligence services have the evidence, it's hard to jump to a conclusion and do anything drastic.

And the criticism that is coming in of Trump is he's saying, well, look,

we've asked for the video.

We've asked for the audio that supposedly exists, that's been described in media reports, but we don't have it yet.

We've talked to them about it.

We're investigating.

We sent Mike Pompeo over there to talk to them about it.

I mean,

I think the same people, who we heard for years and years and years and years, we did not do enough research in to figure out if there was weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and including Donald Trump, by the way, who was

leading that at the time, or at least commenting publicly a lot on it.

Now we're hearing from the same media people that we should be jumping immediately to we absolutely know what happened and how come we haven't punished Saudi Arabia yet.

Yeah.

And I think that that's been the transformation of the news is that everything now is seen through a Trump prism.

And clearly, you know, the Saudi Arabian explanations have been suspect.

There's no, first of all, they didn't know anything about it.

First, well, he was gone.

He left.

We don't know where he went.

Oops.

Well, we never saw him leave out the front door.

Do you have another?

Yeah, he went out the back window.

I don't know.

And then it's, well, okay, yeah, he's dead.

We killed him accidentally during an interrogation gone bad.

Though I will say, even that is a report from CNN about what they're going to announce.

They have not announced that.

They haven't yet.

Right.

They have not announced that.

They've not come out and said that that's true.

That is a report from sources to CNN who said they will be coming out to do it or they're considering doing that, but they haven't done it yet.

And how do you kill a guy during an interrogation gone bad?

I meant to ask you what you were doing last Thursday and instead, oh, I cut your head open with a bone saw.

It does happen.

Darn it, I slipped.

Do you know how many times I have fallen with my bone saw?

and sawed up someone into tiny little pieces and put them in suitcases.

It's happened to me over and over again 50 times in the last three weeks.

Oh, wow.

I'm just estimating.

Wow.

It could be 60, could be 20.

Well, you don't keep track of every single time something like that happens.

I mean, why would you?

I mean,

this is why I subscribe to a suitcase delivery service that drops off, you know, a few dozen a day.

Because you just don't have to do that.

So you never depart in the suitcase and then deliver it to a private plane that takes off.

Maybe I'm the bad guy here, okay?

Maybe I'm the bad guy.

I happen to run around a lot with my bone saw.

Okay?

And that makes you a bad guy.

I don't think so.

I don't think it does.

Do I occasionally fall on one or two individuals?

And did your mom probably suggest, Stew, don't be running around the house with a bone saw?

You know, she did.

You put someone's eye out.

She also said, don't eat sugary cereal, and I do that now, too.

You know, we grow up, we get responsibility for our lives, and you start making decisions as an adult.

And my decision is I'm going to carry my bone saw around.

And occasionally, my footing isn't so sick of it.

So assuming.

So suming.

Right.

Right, exactly.

Yeah.

At least I'm going through the right steps of cutting them up into little pieces and putting them into suitcases.

And I think that's you're cleaning them up after yourself.

Yeah.

That's all you can do is clean up the mess afterward.

That's all you can do.

And it's interesting, too, that the media is making a big deal out of every single time they talk about this guy, they talk about him as if he's an American because they always say Washington Post reporter

Jamal Khashoggi.

I think he just contributed to the Washington Post.

Is he actually a staff member of the Washington Post?

He was a columnist, wasn't he?

And it's relatively new.

Because he had left, there was a lot of problems over there.

He realized he might be on the wrong side of whatever internal craziness was going on in Saudi Arabia.

So that's fairly new.

And, you know, critics of Saudi Arabia, I think, have a, have a,

first of all, a place in the American media that is just, right?

Like, I mean, I think it's important that we are able to air those things.

But also, you know, there's a lot of opposition to them.

And people don't, I mean, you know, remember, Saudi Arabia was like the main

accusation made by Michael Moore in Fahrenheit, was it Fahrenheit 9-11?

Was the first one?

He's made like, he's tried to capitalize over that so many times.

I can't remember which one it is now.

But Fahrenheit 9-11, the first one, the biggest

political documentary of all time.

But in that was just a giant conspiracy theory about how the Bushes knew this guy like 50 years ago and he's working with this and they're working with this group that's working with the Saudis and it was all about defending the Saudis and that's why you don't know the truth about 9-11.

So, this is not a new accusation when it comes to Republicans working with Saudi Arabia, but every president has worked with them for a very long time, and it's something that we've been critical about for them.

Well, they've been our ally since 1933, I think.

So, yeah, a really long time.

This goes back to the FDR administration.

So, it's not just Trump who's been

friendly, I guess, with Saudi Arabia.

Certainly Bush was always

accused of that, being too friendly with Saudi Arabia, but Barack Obama was plenty friendly with him, too.

Exactly.

I mean, they've been allies for a long time.

And there is no way that Barack Obama would have done anything

severe to Saudi Arabia by this point either.

He wouldn't have done anything about this.

It's a great point, and it shows the problem with 90% of the media coverage today.

The difference there is that they perceive

Barack Obama as this intellectual, deep thinker who is pensive, right?

I mean, remember, I'm bringing up Fahrenheit 9-11 again.

One of the other big criticisms of this was Bush was in a school when he found out about 9-11, and he sat there and he let the kids finish the book, and then he took the call, and it took him like nine minutes before

he walked out of the room.

Remember this accusation?

And they showed a large chunk of it, and it was a big deal at the time.

But they saw Bush as this bad guy

who was incompetent.

Barack Obama waited, what was it, 78 days when he knew where Osama bin Laden was before he did anything?

And he was universally praised for this decision.

It was the most difficult decision in 500 years since

Charlemagne.

It was the toughest decision made since Charlemagne.

Charlemagne.

To go get the worst criminal on earth

is a tough decision in the minds of people who want to praise.

It's a decision, by the the way we made on about 9-12 2001 to kill the guy right you know tens of thousands of military members signed up just to do that yeah they all knew I mean yes of course there was risk in a mission like that but these are this was risk you talk to any military member especially people who were serving at that time and they'll tell you that was basically the reason they got into it yeah I mean you know a lot of people got in just to hopefully get the opportunity to take that shot so it was not a difficult decision um but Barack Obama was an intellectual thinker.

He was a deep thinker that was just considering all these options and weighing all these impossible choices.

And he finally came to the conclusion to go and act on this.

The opposite is what they feel about Trump.

You know, the fact that Trump is going out there and saying, wait a minute, let's hold on a second.

Let's get this evidence.

Let's figure out exactly what's going on.

Let's investigate this before we act irrationally.

If Barack Obama was doing that, it would be seen as he's a deep thinker.

He's not being reactionary.

With Trump, it's that he doesn't care.

It's all about money and it's all about Saudi Arabia because Jared Kushner likes Saudi Arabia or something.

It's just that, you know,

the overwhelming problem is that everybody seems to see everything through the lens of this one individual on our planet.

They just are completely obsessed with Donald Trump.

Yeah.

And I just don't, I can't connect to that.

I think as a person who's a small government guy, I don't want the president to have that much of a role in our lives, just fundamentally, whether it's Barack Obama or Donald Trump.

But CNN, I think they've made a decision, and MSNBC is certainly on this board and pretty much every other media source, is that

this is what we do.

All we do is talk about every issue and how it relates to Donald Trump.

This is a man who was murdered, potentially cut up into little pieces, maybe by a mistake of falling with your bone saw, but something happened there.

And all we could talk about is

why Donald Trump is acting the way he's acting.

Well, isn't there more of a story here?

Maybe that's the story you run in three weeks when you're looking back at this incident.

But like, isn't the story now much more about the details of the incident and what happened?

We're still in that stage.

Yeah, it should be.

Breaking news now,

Chicago Tribune is reporting the United States just received a payment of $100 million from Saudi Arabia.

Actually, we got it on Tuesday, the same day Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Riyadh to discuss the disappearance of Khashoggi.

Saudi Arabia publicly pledged the payment to support U.S.

stabilization efforts in northeastern Syria.

So I'm sure that this will be twisted into, oh, we're not doing anything to them because they just paid us $100 million.

Of course.

They're always paying us $100 million.

This is our relationship with them.

It is.

They send us a lot of money and we send them stuff.

That's kind of, I mean, look, that is, it's not completely insignificant to the relationship, right?

I mean,

there are these considerations.

And that is why when you're making a decision as the president of the United States, your decision is not solely based on

what the media wants you to do, right?

Like, it's about American interests, and that should always be the primary choice.

If what the idea at the end of the day, if American interests are harmed long term

by a decision you might make, you have to take that into consideration.

It has to be your top priority.

Your top priority is not adjudicating murders in Turkey, right?

Like,

I don't know if anybody knows this, but

a lot of countries that we're dealing with are murdering people all the time.

How often do we hear that we should talk to North Korea before now that Trump is doing it, no one wants him to talk to North Korea anymore?

So suddenly that's off the table now.

But I mean, this guy's been doing much worse things.

All over the world, terrible, terrible things are happening all the time.

The fact that this guy is a journalist or a columnist is a big part of the reason why

I think the media cares so much about it and they're prioritizing it over you know, some slaughter in Africa or some terrible thing that's happened in Russia.

Right?

Like, it's this is, you know, this is a journalist that they knew that was from, you know, that wound up working for an American newspaper.

So it is a big story, and the details around it are so crazy, like such a 24-storyline, that I can understand why it captures the interest.

But

being patient and making sure you understand the actual facts of the situation before you act is not a negative in this case.

Yeah, there's a lot at stake here.

A lot at stake.

I mean, if you just start willy-nilly throwing on sanctions on Saudi Arabia, they're going to retaliate.

And it's going to cost

not us as much, but the rest of the world is going to suffer in

oil.

That's what they've already threatened.

All right, go ahead and punish us, and we'll cut off your oil supply.

Well, I think we get scant little from them, but other people get a lot.

Europe gets a lot of oil from Saudi Arabia.

So, yeah, you want to make sure you got all your

T's crossed and I's dotted before you take any severe action, I would think.

Yeah, and look, it's a global market anyway.

So it all affects each part of it affects the other parts.

And, you know, it's something to consider.

Though, I mean, I think making a principled moral decision outweighs that a lot of times.

But American interests have to be factored in the equation.

I think we've seen that happening too infrequently over the past few decades.

And that should start again.

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Can I hit you up with one quick thing on the Saudi Arabia situation?

Yeah.

Is it possible for us to settle on a pronunciation of this man's name?

I would like to call a conference of

everyone.

All media.

All media.

What What are we supposed to call this guy?

Because I heard

Khashoggi initially.

And I heard that one on CNN.

CNN is the name, first name in news, right?

I mean, this is the big, this is the big one, right?

Then I heard Khashoggi.

Now, Khashoggi, or no,

Khashoggi?

Khashoggi.

Yes.

Khashoggi is the one that I think is, I thought, was like the main.

That's what I thought.

Right?

I thought that.

We've been hearing that name since the 80s with Adnan Khashoggi, who was a big arms dealer.

Yeah, and he was mentioned in the Iran-Contra hearings.

So, this is a name that's been Khashoggi.

But that doesn't, that's not a determining factor anymore.

Like, if you call it Copenhagen for 500 years, it just turns to Copenhagen one day.

Just everybody starts saying Copenhagen.

It's Kabul, it's Kabul, it's Kabul, it's Kabul.

No, it's Kabul.

It's Qatar, it's Qatar.

Nope, it's Qatar.

And then it was Gutter for a while.

Remember, it was Gutter for a while.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know how this happens.

Osama bin Laden, then it was Osama bin Laden.

It was Al-Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda.

And Al-Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda.

It was Q-U-I-D-A and Q-A-E-D-A.

All different spellings.

I don't understand this.

So I heard

Kashogi initially, then Kashogi.

And now, on the way in today, I heard a New York Times person say Khashoggi.

Really?

Khashoggi.

It's a whole new one.

And now we're like a week into this story, and there's already three different pronunciations of this guy's name.

Can we settle on something?

If we want to call him Bob, I'm fine with that.

You want to ask, I mean, what's his first name?

Jamal?

I'm fine.

Just let's call him Jamal.

Jamal was killed at the embassy.

We can all just say it was Jamal.

And we'll just all know it's Jamal, Kashogi, Kashogi, or Kashogi.

And then whatever the pronunciation is tomorrow.

But you're right.

We got to get together on that because that drives me out of my mind.

It really is irritating.

Yeah, it is.

It is.

I never understood the Osama Osama thing.

How did that happen?

Why did that happen?

Because it's even less

explicable, right?

Here you have a situation where it's the name is spelled the same, but we're pronouncing it different.

At least you can understand that.

Osama went to Usama.

They changed a letter.

They just said, no, it's not an O, it's an U.

It's a U now.

The guy went from like mid-range pick in kickball to last pick.

It's like, when does this happen?

You're just changing the name.

The guy's dead.

And no one ever explained it either.

No one ever said, you know, Osama's wrong.

It should be Usaba.

Usaba.

Why?

No.

No, it just started and people just started using it.

Very strange.

It is very strange.

And like some of it, I guess I understand.

Like, for example, here we say the tiny little country that James Bond goes to the casino is Monaco, right?

If you're over there, they call it Monaco.

It's Monaco.

Everyone calls it Monaco.

No, I've never heard that.

I will say, here's another one.

Here we say Mazda for the car.

If you listen,

as a Canadian sports celebrity, I do quite often to Toronto Blue Jays games on the radio.

They say Mazda.

It's Mazda of Toronto.

That's really

irritating.

Yeah, I wouldn't listen to that.

I would say, I mean, wouldn't you be pissed off if you're Mazda?

Yeah.

Don't call us Mazda.

We're not Mazda.

That's not who we are.

I've also noticed that Jaguars are being called Jaguar.

Jaguar on the commercials.

Jaguar?

What?

It's like they, like, if you come up with a name on your own, maybe you can describe to us

how it's pronounced.

But when it's a word we already know, it's a good thing.

It's Jaguars.

It's a little bit more than a word for 100 years.

Yeah.

Stop it.

It's an animal.

Yes.

It's not just a car.

It's an animal, too.

Right.

Nobody ever says Jaguars.

The Jacksonville Jaguars.

No, I think that's...

See, I think that's Jaguar trying to seem refined.

Right?

Like,

there's something, there's something a little snooty about the way they pronounce it.

Jaguar is like, ah,

that's that stupid animal over there ripping up my dog.

And this is Jaguar.

Would you be that calm?

Jaguar's over there ripping up my puppy.

People tearing into my dog.

Yeah, terrible.

But luckily, I fell with my bone saw on top of it, so everything's going to be okay.

That happens.

It does.

You know,

three times last week alone for me, and it was 50-some for you.

Well, over the last three weeks.

Okay.

Oh, okay.

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And Stu here.

But Glenn is at a triathlon

off the coast of South Africa somewhere, right?

And he's just, you know, because he's such a physical specimen, he likes to challenge himself.

So that's what he's

what he's doing today.

He claims he's not going to finish any better than third, but I don't know.

I think he's got a great chance of winning the third.

He's very modest.

So we'll see how that turns out.

We'll give you the updates when we get them.

We need to warn you about something that's incredibly dangerous in our society and all too prevalent, and that's Disney princesses.

We're being warned by some Hollywood actresses that there's some danger there.

Kira Knightley is promoting her upcoming movie, which was produced by Disney, by the way, The Nutcracker in the Four Realms.

But she told Ellen DeGeneres on Tuesday that she's not a fan of every movie the studio has produced because

Disney princesses don't uphold her feminist values.

So she has forbidden her three-year-old daughter, Edie, from watching certain movies like Cinderella, which has

been banned in her household because she waits around for a rich guy to rescue her.

And she says, don't rescue yourself, obviously.

And this is the one I'm.

But she's mad because Cinderella waits to be rescued and does not rescue herself.

Yes.

She doesn't pull herself out of that situation.

She's also quite annoyed by The Little Mermaid.

She's banned that as well.

She says, the songs are great, but

don't give your voice up for a man.

Amen.

Yeah, thank you.

There's a lot of women that are doing that today.

That's the main message of the song,

of really the entire movie is to give up all of of your rights to men and wait for them to rescue you, especially a rich guy.

That's the message you should be taking from those movies.

Kristen Bell is also fearful that Disney princesses are sending the wrong message to her children.

She's actually the voice of a Disney princess, Anna in Frozen.

Wasn't that done by Kristen Bell?

Yes.

So she tells her daughters, Lincoln and Delta,

that

when she reads Snow White.

Delta Bell?

Yes.

And Lincoln Bell.

Yes.

And when she reads Snow White to him, she closes up the book and she says, every time we close Snow White, I look at my girls and ask, don't you think it's weird that Snow White didn't ask the old witch why she needed to eat the apple or where she got that apple?

I say, I would never take food from a stranger, would you?

And my kids are like, no.

And I'm like, okay, I'm doing something right.

Yeah, you've proved it.

Wow, you nailed that one there.

She did.

Then she'll also say, and girls, don't you think it's weird that the prince kisses Snow White without her permission?

Well, no, because she's in a coma, mom.

She can't give her permission, and she'll stay in a coma if he doesn't kiss her.

Right.

I mean, she's advocating for the coma to continue, right?

The kiss is what brings her out of it.

Right.

And Belle says, because you can't kiss someone if they're sleeping.

Well, no.

I mean,

I would say in in most circumstances, that's true.

However, this is a notable circumstance, which is why it's a movie in a book.

The reason why you know about it is because it's different than everyday life, right?

You know, there's a magical apple, there's a prince that with a magical spell on the princess.

Yes.

And she's sleeping because she can't wake up unless the prince kisses her.

That's kind of the premise.

Yeah.

So it's a unique circumstance that perhaps your lessons don't apply to.

So silly.

So weird.

You can get yourself so worked up about that.

You know what I hope happens every day is every day when she brings breakfast to them, they ask her, well, where did this come from, mommy?

I hope they just torture her with this for the rest of her life.

Because I mean, I can understand this.

You know, sometimes I think even, you know.

Like conservatives get made fun of when they do these types of things.

Like when you watch, you know, there's a, there's one cartoon that the kids were watching at one point that was, and and it was just it was just like a non-stop commercial for recycling.

And it was like, I like Captain Planet or whatever.

No,

that one is actually a legitimate effort to change kids' minds about environmentalism.

And

people who created it actually have talked about that.

But I don't know what this one was.

It might have been Peppa Pig or something.

It's usually Peppa Pig.

I like Peppa Pig a lot.

And Peppa, it was talking about recycling or something.

I don't know and how important it was.

And look, there's recycling, whatever.

Like, I don't have any passion for recycling.

I think

there's some conflicting evidence as to what good it does.

There's been several studies that have shown not much, not much, if any.

Clearly, you don't work for Alcoa.

Apparently not.

No.

But, you know, like, I don't know.

Do I really need a giant commercial about environmentalism on my kids' programming?

I mean, I feel like no.

No.

But, I mean, you also can get a little bit worked up about that stuff.

You know, I mean, you can get a little fired up with trying to find the political messages in these things, even if they're there.

I mean, kids grow up into, you know, adults that can think for themselves.

And, you know, you kind of have to, at some point, realize that you're not going to be able to control every little bit of that.

You can just, you can do your best.

And I guess with her values, probably the most important thing is to point out, I mean, she's probably doing, you know, very worried about.

You know, she thinks Brett Kavanaugh are everywhere.

And

at any point, there could be an assault going on.

And, you know, I mean, maybe this this is consistent with what she wants to pass along.

To me, it's just, it's a little odd.

It is.

And I remember when people were concerned, conservatives were concerned mostly about some of these Disney movies because of the things that they put in the Disney movie.

Like

in the, is it the Rescuers or The Rescuers Down Under?

One of those.

There's a scene where the character is going down a street on, I don't know, some type of vehicle.

And there's a woman

in in one of the buildings they pass that's naked for just a split second.

I remember hearing that.

Remember that?

Yeah, yeah.

So conservatives would talk about that, and it would be, oh, stop it.

You can't even see that.

It's subliminal.

You don't even know it's there.

And then there was the Lion King scene where

Simba, as a grown lion, kind of plops down on the side of a cliff and the dust shoots up and forms the word sex, if you freeze frame it.

Remember that?

Remember this, yeah.

Remember that?

But we were insane for talking about any of that stuff.

Oh, please, that's nonsense.

But you're supposed to tell your kids,

you need to ask where that apple is from.

Why do I need to eat the apple?

It's essentially, she's saying that rape culture is happening at Disney.

Yes.

And that's a terrifying message I was trying to send to children.

Terrifying.

I mean, although we've had this before, I mean,

the one I always think about is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which is a movie I freaking love.

I mean, I love that movie.

But how about the scene where they're just going through the tunnel and all of a sudden, like, in really quick, like, subliminal things, you see, like a chicken get its head cut off?

Like, why the hell is this in this children's movie?

It's terrifying.

That whole scene is terrifying.

It's like, I don't remember that scene.

Oh, my God.

Like, they go through this tunnel and it's like really psychedelic and weird.

And, like, it's a thing.

I remember that being said.

Yeah.

Look close at what's going on in there.

It's not not good.

There's some really scary chicken gets its head cut off.

Yeah, like there's like a close-up of this is one bringing out.

You're making me think.

I don't know.

I think it's supposed to, the scene is supposed to set the like off-putting,

like, he's supposed to give you an off-putting feel, right?

Like, it's supposed to be like things are all, everything's twisting around, and like, it's dimensions are almost changing, and like, all these strange things are happening.

And you see, like, the scary, what was the guy's name with the, with the everlasting, he wanted the everlasting gobstopper, and he kept harassing the poor kid for it.

And then he worked for Willy Wonka at the end.

Yeah, I don't remember.

God, I want to say Squidward, but that's SpongeBob.

I've got a lot of things messed up in my mind.

Maybe none of this happened.

And then he's going through it, and it's supposed to give you that weird, like, you're almost dizzy feeling.

And they flash like a bunch of really fast images, and one of them is like, they're just cutting a chicken's head off in the middle of the stream.

It's very strange.

Yeah.

So we've been tortured with this stuff for a long time.

And look how well we turned out.

The world's fine.

Right.

Everything's going really well.

So, I can't see how there'd be any downside.

I guess you can get to that point where you're over, you're over-parenting, right?

Oh, definitely.

And that certainly seems to be the way

that things are going now.

We recently started letting our son try because I listened to Lenore Skinese a lot.

She's been on the show before.

She started an organization called Let Grow and

Free Range Kids.

And basically, her mission in life is to make

kids do some things?

Yeah, like you don't need to helicopter a parent over them all the time.

She's famous for, she lived in New York, still does, I believe, and she let her nine-year-old go on the New York City subway system by himself.

And she was called the worst parent in America.

And you're honestly, my immediate reaction when I read that story initially was, she's the worst parent in America, right?

Like your nine-year-old on the subway by themselves.

Like, I can't even imagine the amount of panic I would have.

But then you kind of step back.

I don't think I do it.

I don't think I could do it either.

But you step back and you say, well, wait a minute.

Like, George Washington was like, I think he won the Revolutionary Award eight years old or something.

Like, this is,

we went through a long period of time where people were supposed to be, as kids, much more self-sufficient.

You know, I know when I was a kid, like, we would leave the house and we would go play at a friend's houses that just

all the time.

We'd be gone the whole day.

Yeah.

And that whole thing about us coming back and,

you know, you come back back when it gets dark or when the streetlights come on.

And like, it's,

we use that a lot of times to signify things were safer and better then.

Well, that's not even true.

I grew up in the 90s.

This is like the 80s and the 90s, more of the 80s, but still more dangerous than that.

It was more dangerous in America by far.

Much more dangerous than now.

This was a much terrible.

I mean, the crime rates were all higher.

Murders were higher.

Kidnappings were higher.

Everything was worse.

School shootings were at the rate of four times what they are now when I I was in high school.

And I didn't have a minute of panic over a school shooting in my entire life.

And I think we get to that point where we're just, we get so freaked out.

We recently had our, you know, we have our son like walking, walking our dog, a little chore, and he's doing it by himself, just up the street a little bit and back.

And I can tell you, just that

freaks me out.

Like, it's everything in me not to walk to the end of my driveway and spy on him to make sure he's okay the entire time.

And I don't know why that is.

That certainly isn't how it was when I was a kid.

And I somehow lived through it.

I think that's the instinct there is to just make sure you're mentioning every little thing that you think could go wrong in their life so that if that thing does go wrong, you can't blame yourself.

You know, it's like, it's almost a selfish instinct where you're just like, well, at least I told him.

I remember telling my kid 500 times not to go down dark alleys.

And they went down a dark alley.

And well, it's really sad, but at least it's not my fault.

That's not a really healthy instinct for a parent.

I do feel like that is at the basis of it.

Because of course you don't want, no one wants anything bad to happen to their kids, but it's additional to that.

Like, you don't want to be the person who let your kid walk down some street and where something terrible happened because everyone's going to look at you and say, what the hell were you doing allowing them to walk down that street?

Why weren't you there?

Yeah.

So it's like a double whammy.

And I think that leads to a lot of that over-parenting stuff.

And I'm sure this is the boat she's in, Kirsten Bell, right?

Like she's trying to protect.

I mean, look,

you're not going to say anything to a four-year-old reading Cinderella that's going to protect them from rape culture.

That's not going to occur.

You're never going to be able to solve this problem you believe is so prevalent by a story you tell them after reading Cinderella or watching it.

Or The Little Mermaid

or any of these Disney movies because they're already going to be messed up from

Simba falling down and blowing the word sex into the air from the dust.

That's going to mess them up a lot.

A lot of teen pregnancies, right?

A lot of people.

A lot.

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This is unbelievable.

We are

looking into the original versions of some of these

princess stories, the fairy tales, that have been Disneyfied over the years.

And Kristen Bell is shocked by them and warns her daughters about them, and so is Kieran Knightley, despite the fact that both of them have been in Disney movies.

But if you're to go back and look at the original version of, say, Sleeping Beauty,

it's shocking,

shocking

what it entails.

In what way?

Well, for instance, in the original version, the very original version of Sleeping Beauty, the king sneaks into Sleeping Beauty's castle and rapes her.

And she wakes up pregnant.

What?

Yeah.

Wait, what do you mean?

This is an

is that amazing?

The original story?

The original story from an Italian guy, Giam Battista Basili.

That was his original story.

Now,

they took a lot of his original stories.

Charles Perault in the late 17th century and then the brothers Grimm in the 1800s took those stories and reworked them, changed them a little bit.

But the original was like really horrible.

When you say they reworked them, did they?

Do they cut down on the amounts of rapes?

Yes.

Was that one of the things that they sexual assault was something they decided, you know what?

Maybe for a children's book, we don't include that.

What that's slightly

cut back the rape by 20%.

Yeah, what if we did something like that?

Is that something you'd be open to?

I'm thinking like 100%.

Oh, God.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

100% on the cutback of.

Yeah.

Because that's pretty amazing.

Pretty amazing.

So even these tame versions that we see today, those are still offensive and horrible, and you can't let your kids see them i guess um

yeah it's amazing yeah it's amazing it's interesting what we what we the way these standards change we should get into this there's a new report on louis ck uh out today maybe we can get into that later on today uh because it's interesting the standards that are being applied here like i i people just

From the same thing, like him asking for permission and then granting it.

Yeah, and like now is he allowed back on stage?

Should he be allowed back on stage to ever work again?

And it's so fascinating.

You know, this comes from the left who have been launched massive programs to employ former

convicts of crimes that are much worse.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

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Kobe Bryant is the latest victim of the Me Too movement, apparently.

He was invited to an animation film festival to be a juror about some of the new animation films that were coming out, and they invited him to be part of that because he just won an Oscar, actually, for his basketball movie.

And so he agreed to do that.

And then the Me Too movement reminded these people that, of course, he's been accused in the past.

And 15 years ago, he was accused of rape.

Now, those charges were dropped.

And so the whole thing was adjudicated.

Now, it used to be that if charges were dropped, you were considered to be not guilty, right?

Of whatever interesting things that you were charged with.

You're bringing up.

Where did you come up with that idea?

Is it in

mansplaining university?

Constitution.

Could it be that?

Could it be patriarchal college?

Is that the

Is that where you went?

No.

No.

U.S.

Constitution.

I'm not familiar with it.

Yeah, it's a thing that you don't really need to pay attention to anymore because it's really old.

Really old.

You know, it really seemed to be a high priority of

founders

to make sure that people weren't accused of crimes and punished for them with no evidence

and

no way to give someone due process.

Due process seemingly important to the founding of this country.

Seemingly, but it's no longer important because

just the accusation is enough to, I guess, ruin you.

I mean, Kobe Bryant went on to have a really good career.

And he, I don't know, just a few years after he was accused, maybe even the next year, he signed a $136 million deal.

So his life was okay.

However, when it's affecting him now, 15 years later, and it's already been

worked out in whatever way, the 19-year-old refused to testify against him.

They dropped the charges that used to mean, okay, he wasn't guilty.

But now it just means

you're tainted for life if you've ever been accused of anything.

Yeah, I don't know if it's like this constant barrage we've had for the past few decades of CSI and law and order, but every institution is now supposed to be investigators.

They're all supposed to be able to solve crimes that the police can't solve.

They're all supposed to know more information.

You know, this happens in the NFL all the time, in the NBA, and it's like there's a crime committed and there's an accusation and they'll just release the player.

It's like, well, wait a minute.

Don't they get a chance?

Right.

I mean, it's one thing, maybe if you have video or something that really proves that something went down, just these accusations many times before trials will be enough for them to just, you know, throw the player to the curb and it's over.

And it's like, well, you know, and

that is not the responsibility, nor should it be, of an employer.

An employer should not be investigating an alleged crime of an employee.

We have a legal system to do that.

And you know who really got in trouble by going down this road was the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church kept investigating their own accusations of pedophilia instead of bringing it over to the police and saying, hey, there's some real situation going on here.

Can you check it out?

They tried to handle it internally.

Colleges do this today.

They try to prosecute.

They've actually got rape courts.

Rape courts.

At school.

Yeah.

Which is insanity.

Unbelievable.

It is not.

You are not taking a situation seriously if you bring it to rape court at a college.

That is not the place to,

these are serious crimes and need to be dealt with in the legal system.

And when you try to go around that and you try to say, well, we know better than the police, we know better than the investigators because, I don't know, it really looks bad or I don't know, it really looks like

this happened.

That's a terrible direction to go and lead you down awful roads where you're trying to judge things that you can't possibly judge correctly.

Yeah.

And

it's going to be interesting to see how this progresses in a year or two or five from now with Brett Kavanaugh because there was nothing to back up

his accusers' claims.

There was no corroboration.

There was no evidence at all of these allegations from 35 plus years ago.

And yet,

I just saw an article today about from Democrats looking at other ways besides impeachment on how to remove a Supreme Court justice from office.

Yeah.

Just unbelievable.

I mean, the guy.

So you're going to try to remove him from the Supreme Court bench when there was no corroboration and no evidence.

Yeah.

And, you know, wow.

First of all, I think once we get past this election, the Brett Kavanaugh stuff is going to die down quite a bit because, I mean, you've seen, when's the last time you've seen

Dr.

Ford?

You know, you don't hear, occasionally you'll hear from Anita Hill 20 years after, right?

But it's more of like a retrospective or it's tying into a new story.

You know,

they still hate Clarence Thomas, and they'll always hate Brett Kavanaugh.

But, I mean, it never was about these allegations.

There was never a moment in which that story was about the allegations.

It was always about the opportunity to stop Brett Kavanaugh from sitting on the court because they thought they had a chance of winning the Senate and could

block the next justice, and maybe they wouldn't have to deal with another conservative on the court.

That was 100% of it

for every single person involved, with the possible exception of Dr.

Ford, which you could at least say maybe she went through this and certainly she only brought it up now because of the Supreme Court.

So that's, it was definitely part of her calculus there.

But, you know, if she really did go through this, you know, that's a different story.

We don't know.

But the other people, Corey Booker, did not care for one second about what happened to this woman.

Not at all.

Not even for a second.

No.

He only cared about what happened to him so he could call himself Spartacus

and eventually make himself into a 2020 candidate.

And the same thing with Kamala Harris and the the same thing, all of this.

All of these people didn't care at all.

And look, it's clear with things like Keith Ellison, which is currently going on, which actually has evidence behind it, which is going on currently, which actually gone to the police.

And again,

if what we find out is that there's nothing to it, you have to, just like I would with anybody else, say that he is not guilty and should be able to do what he has to do.

But if you're judging it by the standards that they're putting up, it's totally different.

Let me put this in, I thought this was fascinating.

After,

think of how recent this Brett Kavanaugh thing was and absorb that story back in your mind for a moment about what we were trying to find.

Dr.

Ford comes up and testifies and says, I know these people,

they were there.

None of those people say that they remember this incident.

She didn't tell anybody for a very long period of time.

There was no, she couldn't remember where the house was.

She couldn't remember whose house it was.

She couldn't remember how she got there.

She couldn't remember how she she got back.

What date happened?

What month?

None of it had happened.

None of it, right?

And we were basically the insinuation from the media was: if,

let's say,

one of the witnesses she named instead came out and said, yeah, I remember that party.

And I remember her being really shook up and she left.

And I remember it being very strange.

And she was weird for the next three weeks.

She was just like, you know, very distant.

And I didn't know what was going on.

And now I know.

If you would have had just that, I think the media would have been in, I mean, they already were in in full and conviction mode but i don't think collins and flake would have held on through something like that just one person saying one thing not with as a witnessing the incident but just she heard about it in the general time period just one we're looking for one who even knew that the party occurred not that the incident happened just that the party occurred listen to this this is from 1999 from Slate, the hardcore right-wing publication of Slate, talking about the accusation of rape, not sexual assault, not sexual harassment, but rape against Bill Clinton.

Broderick's initial denials indicate only that she shunned publicity.

That's why she never reported the rape, rebuffed advances from Clinton's political enemies, who in 1992 urged her to go public.

So they had asked Broderick about this in 1992 when he was running for president the first time.

And she said, no, I'm not going to tell my story.

So she had an opportunity to take down this president, did not decide to do so.

She lied to Paula Jones' lawyers about the incident to get out of talking about it.

She eventually told the FBI the truth in 1998 only because her son, a lawyer, advised her against lying to federal investigators.

So she didn't want to tell the story to tear down the president.

She told the story because she thought she was going to get like perjury charges or something against her.

Five people say Broderick.

Five people say Broderick told them about the rape immediately after it occurred.

Wow.

So not one.

I'm not looking for one person who was at the hotel or at the party in the Kavanaugh case.

She had five people that she told about the rape immediately after it occurred.

A friend and co-worker named Norma Kelsey says 21 years ago she found a dazed Broderick with a bloodied lip and torn pantyhose in their shared hotel room.

Broderick explained that Clinton had just raped her.

Clinton is supposed to have bitten her on the lip right before raping her.

Her current husband, then her lover, says Broderick told him about Broderick told him about the rape as well within a a few days of the event.

Broderick did not remember the date of the rape, that's the one similarity here, though she did supply the name of the hotel, the Camelot, and the reason she was visiting Little Rock, a nursing home seminar.

She also says that Clinton pointed to a ramshackle prison outside the hotel room window before he raped her and said he planned to renovate it.

So Clinton, in the middle of about to go through a rape, is like, by the way, I'm going to renovate that prison over there.

Dork.

NBC News found a date in which a nursing home seminar was held at the Camelot Hotel, and records show that Broderick attended.

Newspaper reports suggest that Clinton was in the area and had no official commitments in the early morning when the rape is supposed to have occurred.

There was a prison outside the hotel window.

Wow.

That is a thousand times the amount of even alleged evidence that occurred with

Dr.

Ford and Brett Kavanaugh.

And yet that was ignored

until the very second the Clinton family became useless to the Democrats.

And now, yeah, you'll see occasional people saying, yeah, we should have handled that differently, or I'm with you guys.

That's a total Me Too moment.

That only happens now after they never want to hear either one of their stories ever again.

To them, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton family is not guilty of this rape.

It's not guilty of that.

They're guilty of blowing an election to Donald Trump.

And that's why they have no more use for them.

But I mean, Bill Clinton goes along and still makes big-level speeches.

Oh, yeah.

He's able to do all of these things.

This is a much more credible accusation.

And Paula Jones had a lot of evidence, too, including corroborating witnesses of what happened there.

It's a situation with a double standard that is so bizarre.

And the fact that

the media actually thinks we should take their current stance seriously on this stuff is insane.

The stance is and always has been, you should be taken seriously when you report a crime against somebody else.

That crime should go through the legal system with actual standards.

And if they're held responsible for this crime, then we can all understand what happened.

I mean, that is what, that's the system we have.

It's the best in the world.

And the idea that we're now supposed to go through these kangaroo courts, and even worse than that, I mean, even worse than the kangaroo courts, it's like, oh, well, I don't know, kind of seems like maybe he could have done it, is now our standard.

That's insanity.

It's insanity.

And yet you have Hillary Clinton speaking out against Brett Kavanaugh and defending her husband.

And they just asked her what the difference was between the two.

And she said, well, yeah, they're completely different because

my husband's improprieties were looked into for a really long time.

This was looked into for a week.

Well,

there is substantial evidence, as you just pointed out, into all of the claims made by other women and Bill Clinton.

And the other difference is she went after and tried to destroy every single one of the accusers.

That was a big difference.

Nobody's trying to destroy Christine Blasey Ford.

Nobody's trying to destroy even the others that are making outrageous allegations against him that are completely uncorroborated.

The exception of Michael Avenatti, which I think the Democrats are currently trying to destroy.

Because they are so pissed off about that, and they do not want him running for president, and they do not want the circus there.

Oh, so

they are very much trying to destroy him at this point.

But what a clown he is.

He is.

I mean, it's embarrassing.

You thought Michael Cohen was a bad lawyer, and then Michael Avenatti introduced himself to you.

But it's so bad that even Trevor Noah, who's the

I mean, I thought Jon Stewart was unfunny.

This guy is unfunny to about the one millionth millionth power.

But

Trevor Noah on Comedy Central the other night took on Hillary Clinton and, you know, to his credit, actually said some

accurate things

about her and whether or not she's the best person to be speaking out on sexual allegations.

Here's what he said.

In retrospect, do you think Bill should have resigned in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal?

Absolutely not.

It wasn't an abuse of power?

No, no.

There are people who look at the incidents of the 90s and they say a president of the United States cannot have a consensual relationship with an intern.

The power imbalance is too.

She was an adult.

But let me ask you this.

Where's the investigation of the current incumbent?

No, Hillary.

Oh, I'm sorry, man.

Look, here's the thing.

That's not cool.

Maybe it was different in the 90s, but today I think we're all understanding that there's a massive power imbalance between an intern and the president of the United States, right?

I mean, forget intern, a president with anyone is a power imbalance.

Like, if President Obama texted me, hey, Trevor, you up?

I'd have to let him smash.

Yeah.

And then he'd be like, actually, I just want to know if you're watching the game.

And I'd be like, oh, yeah, I knew that.

I knew that.

Of course I did.

Yeah, yeah.

And what's also not cool is Hillary trying to deflect and make this about Trump.

Like, you're not in a position to be throwing stones at someone, Hillary, especially when you're literally sitting in a glass house.

Other than the power dynamic thing, what he is saying there is really amazing because nobody takes her on like that on the left.

But I don't buy into the power dynamic that nobody can say no to the President of the United States.

Of course, you could.

I mean, don't you, wouldn't you certainly try to raise your children to grow up to be people that would say no to the President of the United States?

Yes.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

You don't let him do whatever he wants to because he's the president.

And this is a side thing, and maybe a longer conversation.

But Monica Lewinsky is not a Me Too victim.

She is not.

She was a willing participant in an old-fashioned affair is what she was.

And could have said no.

She could have said no.

She absolutely should have said no.

He obviously should have said no.

And from his perspective,

he's the president of the United States.

He is doing things that he should not be doing.

But it's totally different than Juanita Broderick or Paula Jones.

These are totally different stories.

She was in love with the guy.

She told Linda Tripp she was in love with him.

Like, she thought that they eventually were going to be together and be married.

And this was not a situation in which she was like, oh, wow,

I'm scared for my career, for example.

Like, that's the thing that's a power imbalance.

Well, there's an implication, even if the person doesn't do it, there's an implication that maybe they'll ruin your career if you don't hook up with them.

Which, first of all, is prosecuting a crime before it occurs.

Like, you're just assuming the person's going to commit a crime and ruin your career over sexual stuff.

But that's a whole different story.

That's That's not what happened here.

She was a willing participant in an affair.

She was she was into it.

And she was also, by the way,

and the one point that is valid from Hillary there is she was an adult.

We should not be excusing all actions by 23-year-old women, right?

Or 23-year-old men.

You are responsible for your own actions at that time.

No question.

Yeah.

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Let's go to Seth in Pennsylvania.

Hey, Seth, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

Hey, guys, how are you doing?

I'm laughing when you were talking about kind of her reading those stories and how we kind of make fun of the reaction.

Well, believe it or not, that kind of stuff can really impact you.

I'm 42.

Today's my birthday.

Happy birthday.

Oh, thank you.

And I laugh because when I was about seven, there was an episode of The Smurfs.

And The Smurf is this French socialist cartoon.

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And that singular message when I was a kid stuck with me my whole life.

And it's kind of why I became a libertarian.

It's why I went to law school and I argued the way I did.

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college, when I teach the classes,

it is this singular message of no man is a king.

That is fantastic.

No man should ever be a king.

And you learned it from the Smurfs.

I learned it from that.

I will never forget it.

That one singular message.

Amazing.

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There's this,

there's an interesting thing from the New York Times today.

And it is, they do this little podcast in the morning called The Daily.

And today's was about Louis C.K.

and whether Louis C.K.

should be allowed back on stage.

Ever?

Ever.

Well, he did things in front of girls.

Right.

After he asked him if he could.

Yeah, and that is.

And they said yes.

An odd part of this saga with him in particular is that there doesn't seem to be much of an allegation, much, if any, allegations of him doing something

that against anybody's will.

Right.

Like he would ask, they'd say yes.

Or there was one case where

he

again, like this is the level of the accusation here.

He was accused of calling up someone,

and while he was on the phone with the woman, the woman believed that he was pleasuring himself while on the phone with her

because I guess he was breathing heavy or something.

And she couldn't hang up because of the power dynamic.

The power dynamic, absolutely.

The power dynamic makes you do all sorts of things.

Because as a comedian,

he wields incredible power in this country.

Now, look.

He could have her fired at any job in the nation.

Any job.

Your sarcasm is just reality in this situation.

That's actually what they were saying.

They were saying that she

was some of the people were other comedians.

And at one point, one of the accusations was he walked up to another comedian and they were talking, and I guess he thought there was a vibe there or something, invited her back to his trailer to do his thing in front of her, which apparently was,

this is his shtick.

And she said, actually, you know, you have a wife and a child, and you should think about that.

And he said, ah, I know.

I'm sorry.

You're right.

I have issues.

And that's the extent of the allegation.

He didn't do it.

He didn't force her to do it after that.

He didn't do it.

And then they had that conversation.

Gosh, he asked her to do this thing, which is unbelievable.

It's obviously icky, right?

Yeah.

But, I mean, again, he asked her to do this thing.

She said no, reminded him of his wife and child.

And so he said, ah, you're right.

I have, I have issues.

I am sorry.

Like, that is, is that sexual assault?

What's even the accusation there?

I know that's not

assault.

Which she answered.

Right.

And he did not pursue it after that.

It's unbelievable.

So

he admitted to being a dirtbag.

Right.

And he admitted in such a general way that people kind of

make it.

Well, he admitted to these things.

And he did admit to, I've done a lot of things wrong.

And I've tried to figure out a way to make them right.

And I think that what I just described to you is obviously wrong.

It's a wrong thing for him to be doing.

Is it a crime?

Is it a crime?

I think the answer to that clearly is no.

And the idea that Louis C.K., because he's a famous comedian,

can affect

other comedians' careers is theoretically possible.

But is that enough for a crime?

The fact that

he wants to hook up with someone who theoretically he could hurt their career if they say no, but there's not evidence that he did this to anyone.

So it's a or would even do it to anyone.

Right.

I mean, you know, again.

She's making a weird assumption there.

Yeah.

And we just assume the crime.

Like, this is the sort of stuff that minority report was supposed to scare us away from, right?

You're not supposed to just assume people will commit crimes in the future.

So he's on, listen to this.

This is the guy who runs the Comedy Cellar.

Now, Comedy Cellar is famous New York Comedy Club.

Like, it's a tiny, it's like 100 people can watch comedy there.

And

if you go there, you'll see a lineup of comedians every day.

But it's famous for people, random people that are incredibly famous just stopping by.

You go in there to see some comedian you never heard of.

They're probably pretty good, but you got like a one-in-three chance.

Maybe Chris Rock walks in and does a set, or Jerry Seinfeld comes in and walks a set, or Louis C.K.

walks in and does a set.

Well, apparently, this is the first place he went as he's tried to do this.

He's bounced around to several clubs around New York since, and they let him on stage.

So the New York Times does an exhaustive report about trying to talk to the club owner about why you let him on stage.

This is a clip about how he's trying to determine the decision.

Listen.

Other people were just upset that he should ever work again.

But one guy said he's a comedian.

And I'm like, well, okay, when do you think he could come work again?

He's like, never.

I'm like, never?

He says, never.

I said, well, could you imagine any court of law handing down such a sentence, you know, never work again?

He says, I don't care, never.

This is an admittedly provocative question, but I wonder, as the owner of this place, what you would say, particularly to a female customer who is.

But, but, you know, I know when Bill Clinton, who is credibly obviously accused, and Juanita broader, I mean, I think nobody will expect a warning before he shows up somewhere.

Nobody.

Like, why were they cheering Roman Polanski as they were for years?

Why were they giving him standing ovation?

The director accused of sexually abusing a young man.

Not accused.

He did it.

But behind all these people you're mentioning, Roman Polanski, the film director, Bill Clinton, the president, Louis C.K., the comedian, is someone who gives them a stage.

And in this case, that's you.

Right, but I'm saying nobody cares that Mike Tyson, who raped or is convicted of raping somebody, performs.

And you can only control the venue you control.

Yes, but

it's not unusual to expect some consistency.

And when you see wildly inconsistent demands, if it's so obvious that the guy who masturbated in front of women and exposed himself in women should never work again.

Yeah,

he's, I mean, that's amazing.

The irrationale of,

okay,

but you

let this guy on who did much less than they are.

And you shouldn't, you shouldn't have let this comedian perform on your stage.

Right.

And the fact that nobody cares about these other people, people, the same people, by the way, who want him to shut out Louis C.K.

didn't care about Clinton, didn't care about any of these other circumstances, but he's supposed to.

Yeah, and

I will say he was really smart about this.

He made some great points in this interview.

And the New York Times reporter was just constantly trying to say, well, yeah, but you did this thing and you allowed it and trying to put it personally on him as to why he made the decision, which is an interesting part of the story.

But I mean, he made the the point as well of, look,

what is the line?

We don't allow him, Louis C.K.

to work.

So what does that mean?

Does he go in the government dole?

Or can he work at other jobs?

Can he work?

What if Louis C.K.

got hired by Walmart?

Would that be okay?

And I think it's a fascinating thing.

Can he never support himself?

In life again.

And the idea that this guy has not been punished for this is insanity.

The man was making $10 million a year and he's probably now making, I mean, what was he making at a comedy seller appearance?

$50?

Maybe $500?

I don't know.

Nothing?

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if he just walks in and does it because he wants to do it.

He has

paid for this in a large way.

And, you know, it's certainly affected his career in a big way.

He's lost movies.

He's lost jobs.

But, I mean, we saw this with Charlottesville.

There was a guy who.

And again, we're talking about a consensual act.

Yeah,

a consensual act.

Every time he actually did it,

it was consensual.

And there was one case in which, as we discussed, the woman's mow, another case on the phone where we don't know what happened, another case where he started doing it and the woman left because she didn't want to be part of it.

Well, good for her.

That's what she should do.

She should walk out and think he's a loser and tell all of her friends that he's a loser.

But that does not mean that he should be losing jobs 10 or 15 years later.

Charlottesville is another great example of this.

Look, you saw the people.

We played the video and the audio of, you know, Jews will not replace us and all these crazy chants from the real real dirtbags in that Charlottesville carrying torches and you know the deepest darkest corners of the alt-right right one of the guys who attended the rally and was in some of those videos was identified as a man who worked at a hot dog stand in California he was fired from his job at the hot dog stand now how is this a good outcome for anyone now look if he is saying to black customers I won't serve you because you're black, obviously, we get that.

But if there's no indication that ever happened, there's no indication that that ever happened.

He did his job seemingly right for everyone.

He was serving hot dogs and making hot dogs.

It was not like, you know, he was not in the high levels of finance here.

And so now

we can all feel good about ourselves.

The PR dynamic of a hot dog vendor, though, is such that it's too intimidating for other people.

That's true.

So I guess now we can all feel good about ourselves for the fact that we are, instead of of him having a job at a hot dog stand, instead we will support him with our tax dollars because he's going to be at home and all these projects and programs that liberals have created over the years to support people in need are going to go to this white supremacist who can no longer hold down his job at a hot dog stand because we're too morally above him.

That's crazy.

I don't want to ever hang out.

with a guy who would go to that rally and carry a torch and say Jews will not replace us.

Never.

But But I mean,

what we do is we just find every one of these guys.

Do you want a Jew to replace you?

You know, it's a question I've never considered.

Do you want that?

I would rather not be replaced by anyone, ideally.

But I never have considered.

But does that include a Jew?

I guess, I guess I don't want to think you replace me

or anyone else.

Yeah, it does include that.

But I really don't want anyone.

It's just a weird thing we're dealing with because

finding someone in a video and identifying them online gives you this sort of rush of, I've outed this terrible person and I can punish him.

Who are you really punishing?

I mean, are you certainly you're punishing the taxpayers of this area who now have to support this loser who actually somehow was able to hold down a job selling hot dogs and now has to sit inside probably playing Xbox while you're paying him to do it.

I mean, what a win.

Let's all celebrate that one.

I don't know.

It's a strange direction for us to be going in, is it not?

Yes.

Yes, it's nuts.

It's absolutely crazy.

So maybe the answer is

they just can't be alive anymore.

I mean, it almost comes down to that because if they can't support themselves, and certainly the state, you don't want them supported by your tax dollars.

So I guess all people who are accused just starve to death now.

Yeah.

I guess that's what it comes down to.

I guess that's the way it works.

And it would be nice for us to find some consistency in this world.

It would.

You know, the fact that, like, you know, if you were to say the Me Too movement, I bet to most people,

sure,

you get Harvey Weinstein mentioned,

and you might get maybe Kevin Spacey or one of the other two, you know, a few big stars.

But what you would almost definitely get is Donald Trump and Roy Moore and Brett Kavanaugh and every conservative or anyone even supposedly leaning right that you can think of that was accused.

Those have all had huge play in the media.

I mean, what's the percentage?

95% have been on the left?

It's all been Hollywood and news media people.

And I mean, it's been almost everyone has been in those industries, and those industries obviously lean incredibly to the left.

So the idea that this is a right-wing phenomenon, I mean, it just seems like people who are on the right pay the price for it, where people on the left, you know, don't necessarily see that the same way.

And, you know, I think you have to get to a point where someone like Louis Z.K.,

who was, I think,

accused correctly of being a dirtbag, right,

to his own admission, but

nothing that was over this line of sexual assault, at least is not as reported.

You know, you have to look at these things as they stand.

I mean, Aziz Anzari is now doing shows again,

and

he was accused of something.

You know, what's his face from the New York Times?

He's back.

Glenn, what the heck is his name?

I don't want to get it wrong.

Thrush, right?

He was accused of harassing young interns and other underlings, and he's back at work.

We have this weird story.

I mean, Mike Tyson, it's pretty clear.

The man was convicted of rape.

Not accused.

He was convicted of rape.

Spent time in prison.

And he's like the darling of the media.

He comes on, he has silly appearances.

They never seem to have a problem going anywhere and doing anything.

And he's, I mean, and look, he's served time and he's out, right?

Yeah.

And so you can make the case, as the left has made forever, that people who go in felons should be able to come back and vote.

You should be, they have programs to give felons and convicted felons and murderers jobs.

Yet, but when someone's accused of something, much less than murder, they can never work again.

And not even convicted, just accuse.

Just accuse.

Yeah.

It really doesn't make any sense.

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I'd heard that there was

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No, I think he attached the webcam to the canoe and it's just him.

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We'll share another really good example of that, how they love everybody.

You know, and they're just, and they're so kind and loving and accepting and tolerant.

That's the beauty of it.

Tolerant.

What happened to that word, by the way?

That's not a thing anymore.

You don't tolerate anything anymore.

If you don't believe exactly what they want you to believe, there's no tolerance.

There's a lot of people on the left who have dealt with that, and that they've

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Look out.

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We have some great news about

the wonderful, loving, and tolerant, inclusive left.

And, you know, just how great they're treating people right now.

For instance, there's a tracker for a liberal super PAC that was arrested Tuesday night in Nevada for assaulting a female campaign manager for a Republican governor, a candidate for governor.

grabbed her, twisted her arm behind her back, squeezed it, bruised her, jammed her upside a door.

People had to pull him off of her.

Just a little disagreement there over, you know, their candidates.

And he was just expressing himself in a loving way.

Sounds like it.

Yeah.

And then there's the Minnesota Democratic Party has suspended a spokesman for calling for violence against Republicans.

Even his two GOP candidates were assaulted.

in suspected politically motivated attacks.

What were they wearing, though?

What was the GOP wearing?

Probably something that provoked

the attack.

Yep.

Maybe a red hat.

Yeah.

One of the staffers also called for bringing Republicans to the guillotine.

I think Glenn talked about that this week.

You know, it's.

What do they do to deserve the guillotine, though?

It's probably their fault.

Well, it is.

They're pro-life.

You can't have that.

Nope.

They want to take away a woman's right to choose.

Of course, they need the guillotine.

Sean King, who is the white black guy,

who is a Black Lives Matter activist, but a white Black Lives Matter activist.

So he's a white guy that says he's black.

Yes.

But he's not black.

No, he's not black.

Okay.

I just want to make sure what you're saying is that he is

saying that he's a black person, but he's actually a white person.

He's actually a white guy.

Yeah.

But he said, as I've said before, but I need to say it again, I'm grateful for for Antifa.

It's weird that it's politically incorrect for me to say so.

Oh, so weird.

It's so weird because, you know, you should be able to love a violent group like that who is, you know, rioting around the country.

It should be fine to say you love them.

He said, I'm glad that we have people in this country who stand up to fascism and bigotry and are willing to confront hate face to face.

Thank you, Antifa.

So that's beautiful.

And then, you know, it spills over into people people like Ted Cruz.

He and his wife Heidi, of course, at the Washington, D.C.

restaurant, where people, the mob got in their face and started yelling and chanting at them.

And then he was just walking through an airport.

Do we have the video of Ted walking through the airport being heckled?

Here he is being approached by an angry woman in the airport.

People.

It was a victory for women in America.

Do you think they're putting a sexual assaulter on the core is a victory for women?

Thank you, sir.

God bless you.

So you believe in men assaulting women?

That's what you're going to cost today, sir.

I believe in due process.

Do you believe in a man lying about his alcohol in front of the Senate and perjury?

Do you believe in perjury?

Thank you for expressing your First Amendment rights.

So, why do you support a man that abuses women?

Shame on you, Ted Cruz.

God bless you, man.

Shame on you, Ted Cruz.

Shame on you, Ted Cruz.

Shame on you, Ted Cruz.

Shame on you, Ted Cruz.

Shame on you, Ted Cruz.

Shame on you, you psycho.

I'm so tired of it.

I can't.

It's hard.

I would not have handled that the way Ted Cruz did.

Oh, no, that would have been handled it beautifully.

But.

Yeah, are you okay with a man lying about his alcohol consumption?

Well, do you, how did he lie?

What did he lie about?

He said he drank to excess from time to time.

Yep.

What did he lie about?

The idea is that, well, other, because other people around him were like, well, I think he

did blackout.

How the hell do you know?

if he was not going to be able to do that?

He blacked out or not.

Only he would know that.

Right.

You know, and maybe he did.

I don't see how that's all that

to their conversation, but still, there's no way to know it.

It's a ridiculous thing to complain about.

And, you know, this is one of the most annoying parts about this is

the subtle accusation that everyone who supported Brett Kavanaugh was a terrible person.

Like even from people like you.

There are people on the left that you know, I'm sure.

I certainly know them.

And they were against Kavanaugh because they believed

Dr.

Ford.

But the accusation there is similar to almost, it's implicit, essentially, in everything that they're saying, which is they accuse us of believing

Ford

in a roundabout sort of way.

They're accusing us of saying we know she was assaulted and yet we still want him on the Supreme Court.

Right.

And like, no, right.

What we're saying is if we thought he was a sexual assaulter, we wouldn't want him on the Supreme Court.

We just don't believe he is.

You have not provided any evidence to bring us over that line.

Right.

And just because you happen to believe it, with no evidence, by the way, you happen to believe her, it is your prerogative, but you can't

accuse me of

thinking her story was credible.

I didn't.

I didn't think her story was credible.

I don't think it happened.

Yeah, I don't either.

If it happened, I think it happened with somebody else.

I mean, maybe, but even that

a, I don't think it happened at all, to be perfectly honest with you.

Now, of course, I can't prove that.

I wasn't there.

But

when something like this happens, and it's the same thing that happens with any big public official in this way, if you have someone who doesn't report something and doesn't even tell their friends for multiple decades, then talks about a party that they couldn't remember where it was, and then they tell you the people who were there and they can't remember the party, like

what are we, and the person who's making the accusation has an overt

dislike for the party of the person that they're accusing.

There is, it's a person who has been an activist, has marched at women's march rallies, is an obvious Democrat.

Like,

you have to take in that motivation 40 years later into account.

I always started skepticism.

I have this idea, basically, I think of people almost as like, it's going to sound bizarre, but I think of people almost like as innocent until they're proven guilty.

it's a weird way of thinking about it yeah i know i know i i don't jump right to the guilt you don't

believe the survivors no no well you don't believe survivors

but if you're a survivor that indicates that this this event occurred calling her a victim or a survivor indicates that you know the event occurred i would never call them a victim i call them survivors yeah but survive what did they survive every day they survived this assault by this man yeah but if the assault didn't happen they didn't survive it, right?

You know, I guess we can all call ourselves survivors because we're all alive and we've technically survived everything that's happened to us so far in our life.

Yeah, look, I don't know what her motivation was.

I don't know it's possible.

A million things are possible.

What you said is possible.

It's possible it really happened and we're misjudging the evidence.

It's possible.

How did she make it up?

Why would she lie about it?

That's a good question because I love this one.

What possibly could be your motivation to come up with an accusation like this?

I I don't know.

When I talk,

we talk about,

yeah, I know.

We talk about the women's right to choose.

It is defended as if it is

the life of a baby, not the ending of one.

I would defend my children's lives about as strongly as they defend their right to kill their children.

It is the most important thing in the universe to how many millions of Americans?

The idea that you wouldn't do something to take out a guy who you think is going to overturn that right that you think is so vital is insane.

We've seen far crazier things happen.

We saw an accusation last week where five, five accusers accused a high school student of sexual assault because they, as they later admitted, like him didn't like him.

Yeah.

We have hoax allegations that have come through all the time.

People paint swastikas on their own garage.

They write, I don't like your lifestyle on receipts because they're trying to blame people for being against being anti-gay.

This happens all the time.

You know why?

People are horrible.

Many of them are awful.

Women are awful.

Men are awful.

They do terrible things that you can't explain.

It happens all the time.

And the idea that they wouldn't do that with this on the line.

People are writing swastikas on their door for nothing.

To like say, well, I was a victim of anti-Semitism or I was a a victim of white supremacists.

Not with the entire Supreme Court on the line.

Of course, you could find someone who's going to falsely accuse, which they did.

We know for a fact the fifth accuser recounted his allegations after he made them.

We know the fourth accuser didn't even bother to write any information on their letter, including their name or where they lived or when it happened.

We know that the third accuser went to Michael Avenatti and no one, including Democrats, believed them.

We know that false accusations were littered all over this story.

The only two they even

seemed credible to even Democrats were the first two.

And the second one is there's a giant asterisk there.

The person who made the allegation said, I was told by someone else, so again, was not a witness, I was told by someone else that something like this happened, but I couldn't locate them.

All right.

Well, I guess you could maybe take that seriously until the media did locate the person, and that person said, no, it didn't happen.

And she had to spend six days with her attorney to remember it even happened.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So there's no corroborating evidence on that one either.

And there is, and look, the Ford one was only, I think, taken more seriously than the others because there wasn't an obvious

person saying no, it didn't happen.

Right?

Like, there were, and all the other ones, there were those people.

There just was no evidence proving that it happened here.

And of course, obviously, people like Kavanaugh and his

witnesses were saying no.

But that one was serious because she went and just took the step of going in front of

the hearing and

doing a relatively credible job at recounting what she believed the story was.

Who knows if it was true or if it was completely false?

The idea that you can't pull one person out of the United States who opposes abortion so much that they're going to make a credible accusation against someone that's just completely false is just in aim.

Of course you could do it.

I mean, as we heard with Hillary Clinton, she said there was a vast right-wing conspiracy of people doing this.

Like, the media access, if it's this entirely foreign world where someone could lie about politics.

Of course.

I don't.

Of course it could happen.

And I think likely did, at least in four of the five cases, and probably in all of them.

And you brought up the high school situation in California where they call it the mean girls

situation, where the five girls accuse this one 17-year-old boy of sexual assault.

And they asked the first accuser

why she would do this.

And she apparently told students that she would do anything to get this kid expelled from school.

And they did, accusing him of sexual assault.

And then the second one said, I just don't like to hear him talk.

I don't like to look at him.

I just don't like him.

That's why they accused him.

They just didn't like him.

It's really incredible.

Or how about the Ohio University student who got threatening notes about how they didn't want her in her LGBT lifestyle to be in the student senate anymore at Ohio University?

She was angry and frustrated and disappointed.

She said,

You may find me revolting and worthy of a threat of my life, but in reality, it's your beliefs that are repulsive.

You need to get this through your head, you effing a-hole.

I am proud to be who I am, and nothing could say, or do, or ever change that.

By the way, the Jesus Jenny, of course, admitted to sending the threats to herself.

Jeez.

The woman in And why would you do that?

Yeah.

Why would she?

What could her motivation possibly be?

It's hard to detect in this case.

It's not hard to detect with Brett Kavanaugh.

Or the woman in Texas who said a state trooper sexually assaulted her until, of course, the cam footage came out and her own attorney had to say, we're sorry for bringing this case.

We didn't know about this at the time.

Or the charges against the four dentists accused in Las Vegas of raping

people.

And that was also found to be completely false and untrue.

Or how about the racist receipt?

We don't tip a terrorist to an Arab person at a restaurant who, again, later on had to admit that, yes, he actually wrote the stuff on the receipt.

Wow.

Or the former college student who claimed a rape and then it had to admit in court that it was completely false on Long Island.

Or a Kansas man man who said he put racist graffiti on his own car.

Or the racist note at St.

Olaf College.

If you remember this one, that was one where they talked about, once again, this terrible racial note.

Everyone, apparently, racism is rampant all across.

F your white complacency all over the place.

What we find out later, of course, not true.

We could go on and on and on and on with these stories.

They

have a time.

How many times have you spray-painted on your your car?

Go home, cracker.

Go back to Ireland, you cracker.

Well, it's a tough example.

For me, 112.

But

I think that's

very specific, and you know it's something I like to do.

That's an unfair question.

It's just fun.

It is a lot of fun.

It's just fun.

People ask why.

It's just fun.

I've got no answer.

That's why.

I'm not even trying to frame anybody.

I just like to do it.

I like the way people look at me when I go through a drive-through.

When they think that I've been called a cracker and told to go back to Ireland where I came from.

Sometimes will they throw in a small extra fry?

Yes.

They feel bad for me.

I'm a victim.

I'm a survivor.

Pat.

I'm a survivor.

And I believe you, Stu.

You do?

Automatically.

Because you're a survivor.

But I told you I believe it didn't happen.

I still believe you.

Okay.

Thank you.

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Thank goodness, police in Chicago leapt directly into action when they found a posting on Snapchat.

Somebody posted on Snapchat a photo.

photo.

I could barely say it.

I can barely get the words out.

Of a toy gun.

Oh, my gosh.

On Snapchat.

Put it right up there.

He was holding it, this kid, 18-year-old, 18-year-old kid, holding a toy gun.

But fortunately, the Chicago police went right into action and found him almost immediately.

They located him

and arrested him and

put that.

Record for

what was the charge that they arrested him for?

Genocide.

Genocide.

Or attempted genocide because he posted the photo of a toy gun.

And, you know, with that toy gun, who knows how many people?

I mean, he could have put an eye out.

I have a good idea of how many people.

Zero?

Yes, it's probably.

Yes, Zero is right.

They actually arrested him for disturbing the peace.

The photo of the airsoft, it was an airsoft gun,

was disturbing the peace.

I mean, that's amazing, isn't it?

That's also, I mean, that cannot hold up.

It cannot hold up.

I wouldn't think so, but

the community is applauding the police's swift success.

The swift success in locating and arresting him is due to the timely information provided by numerous concerned teens and adults, as well as the cooperation of the Park Ridge Police Department and the Cook County Sheriff's Police.

Is this so?

So it a multi-department

operation to get this kid?

Wait, does this story come around, though?

Do we hear at the end, by the way, they found out it was an airsoft gun and now he's been released?

No.

This story.

No.

Because, I mean, let's just say you had a realistic-looking airsoft gun, okay, that maybe lost its little orange.

I assume they all have the orange thing on the end that shows it's a fake, right?

But let's just say that fell off or something, right?

Because they painted it black.

Right, let's just say.

He's walking down the street or he's walking towards a school.

I can understand someone passing by and be like, oh, what the hell's going on?

And calling the police.

And what happens is they show up and they talk to him.

Oh, it's an airsoft gun.

It's an airsoft gun.

All right.

Hey, you got to get that thing.

You got to get the orange piece or people are going to freak out.

And then you release him.

Right.

Let's say

the maximum penalty would be, well, look, we're going to take the gun.

We'll return it to you later.

Instead, they found the airsoft gun in his truck and arrested him for disturbing the piece.

Did they realize it was an airsoft gun?

Yeah, they knew it was an airsoft gun.

They said it was an airsoft gun.

And they're still being congratulated for their Swift success.

Okay.

I don't know.

I don't know.

What are you going to do with an airsoft gun?

I mean, if you shot somebody in the eye.

Yeah, you're supposed to wear goggles, right, when you're wearing

that.

It would hurt.

You might put an eye out.

My mom warned me about that when I was a kid.

But other than that,

I don't know what you're going to do with the airsoft gun that's so dangerous that they had to arrest the kid.

When they found out, it's an airsoft gun.

But he wasn't even walking down the street.

No, he posted a photo.

He didn't threaten anybody.

Didn't say, I'm going to use this at school.

None of that.

Very bizarre.

Unbelievable.

Pat Gray, Stupid Gear.

I'm joined by Jeff Fisher.

Some would call him Jeffy.

Hello.

Others call him Fatso.

But that's wrong.

We don't like that.

We chastise people who call him that.

Do you?

We do.

Severely.

Do you?

Yeah.

We sure do.

We sure do.

I'm trying to remember when that happened.

Well, a lot behind your back because we don't like people to call you fat.

So to your face, so we chastise them when they do it behind your back.

And that's a great point, Pat.

We should just, before we get into this conversation, we should point out the name of the segment, of course, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

Right.

But that just means it's a conversation, you know.

Oh, yeah.

That's also, I believe, the fastest growing podcast in America right now.

Yes.

Yes,

chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

Is there?

I mean,

I'm calling it that.

Okay, right.

All right.

I don't have scientific measures on that, but I know the numbers have been really good.

Lots of new subscribers.

The show is.

Yeah, yeah, it's feeling good.

It feels good.

Yeah, real happy about it.

It's fun.

Monday through Friday, Jewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

Okay.

4 p.m.

Central, 5 p.m.

Take it home.

Up every day.

Good to go.

You can also listen to Pat Gray Unleashed between 7 and 9

Eastern Time, 6 and 8 Central.

Live.

Live every day.

And then that's posted by about 8.30 in the morning.

So you have plenty of time.

You listen to that meeting time.

And then me.

No problem.

I mean,

I could listen to the radio show.

You could also listen to the radio show.

You have all these options, which is podcasted as well.

Yep.

Right.

Lots of good options.

Posted every day.

And then, according,

as long as we're just promoing the heck out of everything, don't forget on Pat Gray Unleashed.

More on trivia is back.

All right.

And tomorrow will be the first time in a long time we've done it in the morning.

But we're five wins, one loss.

Yeah.

I mean, it's been a a great season so far.

Right.

Looking good.

So, very cool.

Check that out tomorrow.

We've had some very, um, some very intelligent

contestants.

As always.

As always.

As always.

It's going to be even worse in the morning.

People with that

coffee, and they're going to be trying to answer these questions.

It's going to be hard to get them on the line, though.

More in trivia.

That's the problem.

In the morning, yeah.

It's going to be hard.

So, Jeffy, what do you have for us today?

Well, I just want to, this is the last couple days of me working, and I'm sure you're happy about that.

But, you know, I'm going to, you know, the lotto,

the Powerball.

Oh, you're going to win it this time?

$900 million.

You're going to win it every time, though, you say.

$900 million

for Friday's drawing.

For which one is this?

This is Mega.

This is Mega, yeah, for Friday's drawing.

The other one wasn't on either Powerball.

They didn't win.

No, they didn't.

And on Saturday, that's $430 million as of right now.

Well, that's not even going to go up.

That's not even worth playing.

It just bumps into a different tax bracket.

That's not even worth doing.

Are you going to bother to enter either one of these?

Yes.

Yes.

Oh, my gosh, yes.

You have a strategy?

Once we lose hope, Stu, and then the country's gone.

Without hope from the lottery, if you don't play the lottery, the terrorists win.

Yes, thank you.

Yeah,

that's a fact.

Now, the cash payout, though, from Mega, $513 million, that's not bad.

Well, but I hate this, though.

This is like NFL contracts.

You're like, he's just signed a 10-year, $900 billion contract.

$100,000 is guaranteed.

It's like, well, why don't you just tell me what the contract is?

The same thing here.

Like, if the payout is $513 million,

then the lottery is $513 million.

It's not $900.

Well, you can get to the $500.

No, because you have to get the payouts.

Yeah, you don't have to get the payouts, dude.

You can take the 20th of $250.

If you don't get the payout,

because that money's not going to be there.

No, it is not.

I guarantee that money won't be there.

What is the actual ⁇ if you were to take the annual, what would you get?

Do you know?

No, I don't.

Again, like Pat said, if you were to do that, you'd be dumb.

Yeah, I'm not going to get it.

You've got to get it in the bank.

You've got to

take all of it that you can.

I mean, there's an argument for, let's say, a Jeffy,

who may not be as fiscally responsible as that argument with others that at least they're, hey, there's a check coming in for the next 30 years.

At least you'll know you'll live the next 30 years.

But well, not, you know, I mean, you can't guarantee your health.

So Jeffy very well may die of multiple ailments and diseases that

he holds, but still, at least there'd be money coming in.

There is that argument, but the worst argument, I think, in today's world is that that money's not going to be there.

You know, there's already some lotteries that that are, there was some in Indiana for a while that were saying, you know what, we're going to pay you, but no, we can't pay you right now.

I mean, we've already started here.

Wow.

You know, we're,

I think it was Indiana.

It was either Indiana or Illinois that said it's probably Illinois.

We're not going to pay you.

So if you take the 513

up front

and after taxes, that would be, what, 350, 380, something like that.

That's a lot of money.

You get 380 and you bank that, you're set set forever and so are generations of your family if you're not a moron.

If you're a moron, it'll be gone by next week.

But if you're not a moron,

that will last you for generations of

continue to grow.

Yeah, it should be forever.

Your great-great-grandfather won the lottery.

That's why I'm not doing anything.

I mean, that's not bad.

Yeah.

And if you win both, ooh.

Now you're talking.

Now you're talking a life.

Because your life with $513 million would not be that great.

But if you could add on a couple hundred million on top of that,

that's when you start to feel like

you can take some vacations.

Now you're okay.

Then you're like, you know, I'm going to get 30% when I go out to a restaurant.

That's when that starts happening.

It's that time.

When you get to like 900, you know, 950.

It'll just splurge.

Is it time to stop that?

The waiters expecting tips.

Is it time to stop that?

Yeah, maybe the restaurants pay the waiters a decent wage, and then I don't have to worry about paying that tip.

Unless they do an outstanding job.

Because now they expect it.

They expect me to pay it.

It's part of their salary.

Now they expect it.

I had a very high-level job as a Chili's waiter for a couple of years.

And the minimum wage at the time, I believe, was $4.27 an hour.

And you got for what, two?

And I got $2.12 an hour.

I remember getting $2.12 an hour.

It was my two hourly wage.

$2.12.

Now, of course, that's the reason is because you're getting tips and you're going well over the minimum wage, right?

And did you?

And you did, of course.

I mean,

it was not hard to get $2 an hour in tips, even for me, and I was a crappy waiter.

But $2.12 an hour, the check would come in.

After two weeks, it would be like $60.

We wouldn't even cash it.

It's not even worth it.

Yeah, it was almost like you felt dumb drug.

I'll probably spend $60 on gas getting to the bank.

Seriously.

Yeah, that's ridiculous.

It is.

It's kind of bad.

You know, there's also for you, Stu, I I was thinking of you while as I was reading this new study on the burger chains

having failing grades with their antibiotic use in their meat.

Okay.

I know.

I know.

Not sure.

25 burger chains reveal a very different pattern.

Now, there's a new study, the Chain Reaction Burger Edition.

And if you thought it was going to be slanted,

no.

That's produced by Consumer Reports, along with the Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth, the Food Animal Concerns Trust, the Natural Resources Defense Council,

and the U.S.

Public Interest Research Group.

Yes, those are some of my favorite agencies.

Thank you.

Finders of the Earth and the Defense.

The Resource Defense Council.

Those are two.

I mean, you want to talk about awful environmental organizations.

Those are at the top of the list.

But high use of antibiotics in the beef industry is terrible.

It's killing people.

It's killing people.

It's terrible.

Right?

So

there's only two restaurants that, you know, fast food chains that got A's

in their beef that they don't use any beef with antibiotics.

Burger Fi, which I've never been to.

Never heard of that.

And Shake Shack.

Oh, really?

Shake Shack.

Right?

I know.

Shake Shack, man.

Oh, that.

Yeah.

I want to go.

Let's go to Shake.

Let's go right now.

Let's leave.

Let's just leave right now and go.

I just kind of want to put the microphone down and walk out of the studio and go to Shake Shack.

It's now good.

All the other fast food restaurants failed, except for Wendy's, who got a D-

because they have now committed to sourcing a small percentage of beef.

Who minimize,

they don't eliminate, but producers who minimize the use of medically important antibiotics.

So once in a while, you're going to get a burger that doesn't have an antibiotic.

And what is the antibiotic in the burger doing to us?

Is it

making us making us?

Their claim is that it's making us resistant to the change.

Resistant to change.

The hardcore left-wing environmentalist groups are saying there's bad things in there.

Right.

Which that means absolutely nothing to me.

I'm guessing there's worse things than antibiotics in there.

Like, you know, cow poop and that kind of stuff that gets mixed in.

But they just had to focus on that.

Seriously, because some of this stuff is not done really well.

Yeah.

Did you see this report on LaCroix water that came out?

I think it was this week.

You know, LaCroix water.

It's like a sparkling, like

I want to say it's fruit flavored, but it's not.

If you've ever had a drink of it, like you can be like, wait, what is that?

Oh, I can taste a tad bit of lime.

It's like not as unflavored like anything.

It's not good, in my opinion.

I'm not a fan.

But they tried to come out the same thing: like, oh, well, there's an ingredient here that's included in this terrible thing.

And you go through it.

And of course,

of course, at the end of the day, there's absolutely nothing to the report because that is what medical journalism has come to.

It's especially about food.

They just try to say, like, well, this ingredient is included in some other thing that sounds scary.

Of course, you don't eat nearly enough to come close to any problematic area.

Correct.

Like, we are constantly, you know, we can't.

I mean, some of us.

I shouldn't say that with Jeffy in the room.

That's a good point, Jeffy.

Some of us need to be concerned.

Yeah.

If you're eating as much as nine horses would eat, well, okay.

You know, Jeffy falls into that category.

So, but I mean, it's just we get so scared about these things.

And

99% of it is nothing.

Like, you can go and you can have all the things that they say you can never touch, you can have as long as you don't go crazy with them.

As long as you're not constantly eating them all the time, you're going to be okay.

And honestly, most of the stuff, even if you are eating it all the time,

you're probably going to be okay.

I mean, we have pretty resilient creatures here.

This is from a guy who's in the past

drank Roundup.

Yeah.

So you know.

Rightly a commercial from my viewpoint.

But yes, I have had a couple sips of Roundup here and there to prove that that as well has already killed you.

I am still alive.

And you're still on this planet.

I am still alive.

They're making headway with the chicken company, with the companies that are using chickens because you've got Chipotle, Panera, and Chick-fil-A, number one.

They use chickens without antibiotics.

Did you just use the L Sharpton pronunciation of Chipotle?

You did.

Chipotle?

Chipotle.

You did.

You've just accepted the

don't call it anything else.

Seriously, I don't.

Really?

I can't see it on the sign.

I can't read it.

It's Chipotle.

It's Chipotle.

Everybody said that?

Mitt Romney went to a Chipotle and he was trying to criticize

to a Chipotle.

That was that whole montage where Sharpton can't read the teleprompter?

I can't call it anything else but that now.

I'm sorry.

That's the name.

Okay.

But it's good that

Subway and Taco Bell, they're all trying to play along with their chicken.

They're using chickens with less antibiotics or zero antibiotics.

So we're good there.

But my favorite story is we talked a little bit about this on Pat's show a week or so ago.

The gluten-free

dishes that are at restaurants now that everybody so, well,

everybody has to be gluten-free now.

Yeah.

Everybody's ridiculous.

Everybody is gluten-free.

Nobody can.

If you're a celiac or whatever that is,

that's one thing.

Okay.

If you have the celiac disease, you probably shouldn't have gluten.

And look, and there's

very few people who have that.

How dare you?

How dare you, Pat Gray?

I know.

There's approximately 1% of the U.S.

population with that disease, okay?

Why then?

There's 83% of people avoiding gluten.

I was gonna say, I was thinking that there's a weird, like, this happens with a lot of these issues, where like people are mad at you for accusing them of not having celiac disease.

It's like, well,

I think that's a great thing.

You don't want celiac disease.

It includes my daughter because for a while she was on that kick.

Oh, yeah.

I'm like,

you don't have celiac disease.

You are not allergic to gluten.

Stop it!

It's the same thing.

The Kavanaugh hearings, like all these people come out and they're accusing Kavanaugh, and they're like, how dare you not believe them?

And they're fighting.

Like, wouldn't our thing be better if it was true?

Wouldn't it be great if these women weren't assaulted?

Like, wouldn't it be great if global warming wasn't killing us?

Like, maybe we should at least consider these things and not get defensive of doom.

Right.

Like, they're defending.

Like, I know, you must believe that we're all going to die in 10 years.

You must.

Like,

I'd rather look at the facts and try to decipher it, but

there is that passion.

People really hate it if you tell me.

Yes, they do.

And the guardian, You're going to live.

No, it's not.

Damn you.

The good news is when you order the gluten-free at the restaurants, odds are it's not.

It's not gluten-free.

At least a third.

Is that true?

At least a third.

They did studies and went to the restaurants, and at least a third

is not gluten-free.

That shows how duty nonsense this is, right?

It does.

I mean, if it were real and people were really having these allergies.

There'd be lawsuits.

Yeah, huge ones.

Yeah, I mean, they'd be breaking out.

You know, they'd have the words.

Oh, they'd be breaking out if you really have it and you i mean you can not breathe and you know

it's a serious thing it's a serious thing yeah it's just that for whatever reason everyone wants to lump themselves in this new victim status i can't get gluten

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with pat stu jeffy uh you got some news about uh an unfortunate i'm just in mourning i mean we discussed a little bit uh about the mourning process yesterday on Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher, my podcast.

Dennis Hoff passed away.

And it's been sad.

It's been sad because I don't know who's.

Dennis Hoff.

Who's Dennis Hoff?

The pimp of Nevada?

The pimp?

The pimp of Nevada.

Oh, of course.

The Love Ranch.

There's only one.

All right.

That's it.

The Love Ranch.

I mean, all of it.

Most famous.

Yeah.

Is it the bunny crack?

It's a Cat House, HBO Cat House series.

I mean, it's all Dennis.

That aired for 12 seasons, by the way.

Cat House on HBO.

What?

12 seasons.

So there's a show on HBO based on the

ranch.

Dealings, his business dealings.

Yes, wow, I would say.

The craziest part I thought was that he, because he was 72 years old.

He's also running for

state legislature.

And he was like a big Trump guy, right?

He liked to think he was a big Trump guy.

Same kind of Republican kind of thing.

Yeah, and he, you know, he unseated the Republican that was in office in the primary

already being that hardcore

down the line.

They think a heart attack?

Yeah, I mean, they found him in the bed.

His friend,

Ron Jeremy.

Yep.

The you know, the star who's been in a bunch of movies.

Yep.

Oh, bunch of movies.

A bunch of movies.

A bunch of movies.

By the way, also at the birthday party with them, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Clover Norquist.

Oh, and Heidi Fleis.

And Heidi Fleis.

Glenn.

Wow.

Beck.

Mercury.